Wednesday, November 18, 2009

GIG 'EM: I was generally neutral or slightly favorable to UT in the Texas v. Texas A&M wars of my youth, but that doesn't mean I wasn't in awe of the phenomenon that was Aggie Bonfire, where students built a 55 foot tall bonfire and lit it on fire after it was doused with jet fuel. 10 years ago today, at its final stages of construction, the bonfire collapsed, killing 12 and injuring 27. The Wiki page provides a lot of insight into the community's response, which, regardless of your feelings about A&M as an institution, says a lot about how amazingly cohesive it is as an institution, especially for a school of that size.

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